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"Average person discovers infinitely many infinities per year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person discovers 0 infinities per year. Cantor Georg, who introduced the diagonal argument and discovered infinitely many infinities in 1891 alone, is an outlier and cannot be counted.
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Tumblr post joke about statistical outliers, referencing Cantor's diagonal argument, with 491 notes.

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